Vintage Logging – Lumber Machinery

Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging and forestry photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about lumber machinery.

1879 Miller Falls Carpenter.

View of a steam engine and wagon hauling a load of logs. Note that the wheels are made to run along logs laid down as tracks.

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Photograph shows unidentified man standing on huge flywheel at the Englebretson mill in Butte County, California.

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1892 Aug 01 – illustration from Scientific Machinist publication showing a circular saw bench.

Portrait of loggers logging using the McCloud traction engine. Siskiyou County, CA.

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View of the interior of the saw mill located in Cohasset, CA.

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Pulley and engine of sawmill.

Log entering the sawmill.

Engine of the sawmill.

This is the up and down saw used by Wheeler and Dusenbury in the Newtown, Pennsylvania mill. There are 25 blades in their frame.

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